The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 26
So the old woman had to strike again three times upon the ground with the rod, and the next morning the garden was there.
Who acts: old woman, garden · What happens: have, strike, be · To what, where: ground
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, garden), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 strike | mark |
| 7 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | xcomp |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 strike | advmod |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 times | nummod |
| 10 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 strike | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 ground | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strike | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 rod | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rod | det |
| 16 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strike | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 there | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 there | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 morning | det |
| 20 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 morning | amod |
| 21 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 there | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 garden | det |
| 23 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 there | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 there | cop |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 had | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the old woman | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | strike | to-infinitive | the old woman not said here | the ground | again; time | with the rod | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon ground=Location | ||
| 3 | is | past | the garden | morning | there property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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